Effective Date: January 1, 2023.
Animus Engineering (“AE” or “I/me”) understands that your privacy is theoretically important to you, even if you routinely diminish or sacrifice or give up that privacy for any number of reasons. Engineers take their own privacy quite seriously. This Privacy Policy describes how AE handles and protects your personal data in connection with pages that post a link to this privacy policy (which I suppose we will heretofore refer to as “these pages”). Please see our terms of use for more information about viewing this website.

Information we collect

With a few obvious exceptions (see below), these pages are not designed or intended to collect any personal information from you. AE does not care about cookies, or use them, with the exception of a plan (not yet in use) to allow a visitor to a page with longer form text to use a cookie to bookmark their place and come back later. AE does not care who, individually, visits these pages, or why, or have any intention of tracking those people, or selling their information, or allowing ads on the site, or any of the other idiocy that’s been employed to try to “monetize” an internet that relies, overmuch, I think, on a business model of rushing to massive scale and figuring out how to pay people, and electric bills and office leases, and pay for servers, later. Other than the bookmark thing, AE does not do anything with cookies. What your browser or WordPress does, I don’t know.
There are some obvious exceptions. If you fill out a web form on these pages, and submit information, requesting services, for example, or making a payment or donation, any information you submit belongs, entirely, to AE.

Use of information

Information you submit through any form on these pages, or in any email sent to any email address you found on this site, may be used however AE or any engineer sees fit, within, of course, the boundaries of all applicable laws. Engineers do not, generally, post anything related to their work online, anywhere, or transfer information you’ve submitted on to anyone else, except, of course, in an effort to provide the outcomes you’ve requested, should an engineer decide to take you on as a client. But you never know. AE does sometimes post quotations from messages thanking engineers for work completed, or reflections on work completed, insofar as it furthers understanding of what AE does, or adds complexity to it, or is surprising, or is in some other way additive, but those do not contain any information that could be used to identify you.

These pages do not track you by collecting personal data about your online activities over time and across other websites. So this site does not do anything in response to “do not track” signals transmitted from web browsers.

AE has no interest in offering you a personalized experience on these pages based on your computer, or online activity, or mobile device or activity. Everyone views the same text. And, yet, your experience of these pages will, still, be personalized to you based on the billions of variables of your life and memory.

Use of information collected via mobile devices

AE does not care what device you use to view these pages, nor make any effort to track your location, or anything else about you, from a use of a mobile device or any device to view these pages. If you submit a phone number from a mobile device into a web form on these pages, it may be used to contact you by phone.

The legal basis by which we process your personal data

If ever I become aware of any laws that require AE to process your data in any way, perhaps I will do so. For the time being, consider any data detritus from your visits to these pages unprocessed, at least by AE, because I have no interest in looking at it, with, again, the obvious exception of data or information submitted, by you, through a web form on any of these pages. Information submitted in forms will be processed in ways that comply with the law, when certain information is necessary to satisfy our legal or regulatory obligations. Otherwise engineers may do whatever they want with it.

Disclosure of your data

AE will not intentionally disclose or transfer your personal data to third parties, except to provide relevant information to individual engineers in connection with client services, in the manner agreed upon in our client services agreements. Otherwise, AE may disclose information about you only if we are required to do so by law or legal process; to law enforcement authorities or other government officials; when I believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent harm in connection with an suspected or actual illegal or otherwise shithead activity; if disclosure is necessary to protect the vital interests of a person; to enforce the T&Cs; to protect property or legal rights; to prevent fraud; or to comply with any and all applicable laws.

I suppose I may transfer data that happens to include your personal data in the event of a re-organization, new website, or new creative solution to the problem this site was designed to address. There are currently no plans to do so.

Link to third party sites

Where you find links to other websites or information, when you use these links, you will leave this site. This is how links work, right? Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by AE of that website. Often it will be precisely the opposite. AE is not responsible or liable for your use thereof. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those sites.

Social Networking

Websites and services typically referred to as “social networking,” a phrase that would have meant something entirely different in 1980, if anyone ever used it, are, generally speaking, junk, and you should not use them. But I anticipate a lot of you do. I will make no attempt to connect any information collected about you by this site to any social networking accounts, except, as I feel like I’ve written many times now, in connection with client services performed by specific engineers. If WordPress is doing anything behind the scenes to associate your data with social networking sites, I suppose I would give them the same advice re: junk, but I have nothing to do with that.

This site will never ask you to log into any social networking accounts. In fact you should probably take whatever steps are legally open to you to delete those accounts.

Security

AE uses, for the time being, only whatever security is afforded by WordPress and other off-the-shelf tech solutions I am cobbling together to create a presence for accounts of engineering in the semi-public, semi-real world of the internet. While I do not share any data about you with anyone else, except, ad nauseam, with individual engineers for the purposes of client services, I am not an internet security professional. Use this site at your own risk, I suppose.

Data retention

AE retains personal data submitted by filled-out forms, as necessary, for the duration of the relevant client service. Or longer. If you request that I delete your personal data, I may consider it. I will probably not respond.

Children

This site is not designed for or directed at children 18 years of age or younger, and AE does not intentionally collect or maintain personal data about anyone under this age.

Your rights

Where granted by applicable law, you may have the right to request access to the personal data collected about you for the purposes of reviewing, modifying, or requesting deletion of the data. You may also have the right to request a copy of the personal data and to have any inaccuracies in that data corrected. In certain circumstances, you may also request that AE cease processing your personal data. In addition, and where granted by local law, you have the legal right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority. Sure. Go for it. AE replies to only a small fraction of requests in any context, and makes no guarantees about anything.

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